Daily Dems Doing the Work Making Noise and Fighting Back Day 225

Sep 09, 2025

I think a lot of people forget that we don’t have legislative power. If we want something to be done legislatively it must be bipartisan. But we do have messaging power. Messaging is what is getting Democrats elected in elections all over the country. So, please, I beg you, stop shitting on it.

Repping the Rep: Brad Schneider (IL-10)

and Rep Jonathan Jackson (IL-01) were on News Nation discussing Trump’s attempt to take over Chicago.

Rep Scheider was asked about his visit to the Naval Stations Great Lakes with Sens Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth. He explained how this is the only naval basic training station in the country, so every naval officer comes through, which means ICE using it as a base is bad for a whole other level.

He also said that if Trump really wanted to help, he could release the funds he froze to do just that:

The Gov’s been clear, we don’t need the national guard here, if the president wants to help cities like Chicago reduce crime, reduce violence he can release the $158 million he’s holding up for congress approved gun violence to lower gun violence across the country.

It’s almost like Trump froze funds just so he could invade blue cities.

And Rep Schneider brought up the fact that Trump’s understanding of the murder rate is not based on anything other than raw numbers. Because in reality, it’s higher in red states, the cities are just smaller:

There are cities half or a third size of Chicago which have farm many more murders per person than what we’re seeing, we need to be helping every one of those communities, and not targeting this community or that community, but giving the communities the resources they need.

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Representative Rob Menendez (NJ-08)

Was on NJ PBS show Think Tank With Steve Adubato in July, though it was just posted on YouTube yesterday, to discuss the federal funding cuts.

Rep Menendez posted a clip talking about the Child Tax Credit:

What we saw in the outcome when we had the full child tax credit was half of children being raised out of poverty.

I’m fairly confident most people didn’t know it was this black and white, I certainly didn’t. I heard about the Child Tax Credit, especially while Kamala was running, but it was just another great sounding program. That quote really puts it in perspective.

You can watch the whole interview below!

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Rep Sam Liccardo (CA-16)

Shouted out Mountain View Mayor Ellen Kamei, for her support of and suggestions for, “The Unleashing Needed Local Options to Construct and Keep Housing Act” or UNLOCK Housing Act, a bipartisan House bill that would cut the red tape preventing affordable housing. A similar bill, Road to Housing Act, also bipartisan, passed the Senate Housing Committee in July.

Kamei told KCBS Radio:

Making sure that the appropriations we got, especially with the CBDG grants, the Community Development Block Grants, can be used for our existing affordable housing projects

I really appreciate that it sounds like Rep Liccardo listened to her when drafting the bill. We don’t often see the local government working with Congress this way, even though it happens all the time.

Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25)

Spoke several times during the Appropriations Committee Markup of FY26 Financial Services and General Government Bill. One of those times, she brought up unions, and how Trump’s attempt to dismantle them will hurt everyone:

If we allow this admin to arbitarily vacate their obligations to civil servants who dedicated their lives to our country, undermining their retirement, healthcare, child care and more, it will harm all workers, union or non union.

You can watch the whole markup (or more likely just find other great clips) below:

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Rep Joe Morelle (NY-25)

Stopped by the New Democrat Coalition Fly In podcast. He posted a clip explaining how long the budget process has been broken in congress. This one sentence explains everything:

I serve on the Appropriations Committee, which you know in the normal order of things is supposed to pass 12 appropriation bills on various subjects. I think it has successfully once in the last quarter century.

Wow. I think one way we can help is by learning about he budget process and demystifying it a bit. I don’t see a whole lot of people talking about these markups, like the one Rep Wasserman Schultz spoke in, but if we start, maybe this is something we could have a positive impact on.

And you can watch the full episode below!

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Finally

Rep Jimmy Gomez (CA-34)

hosted his Inaugural National summit on Housing Affordability Crisis on Wed, and it was incredibly successful.

He opened the summit talking about his experience growing up in affordable housing:

My parents originally came here from Mexico. Back in the 1950s, my dad was a Bracero, he worked in the fields of Coachella Valley. But he also worked a plot of land in rural Mexico it was a one room Adobe house with a thatch roof. And they came here just like everybody else searching for a better life, and they and they found it shortly after I was born. They saved enough money to buy a small single-family home in Riverside, California at a home where my siblings and I grew up. And it was only three bedrooms one bath for eight people, but it was ours. It was something that we could be proud of and knew that it would be hard for anybody to take it away.

How do I know this? Cause the entire 6 hour summit is available to watch on YouTube, which I absolutely love!

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So, those are just a handful of today’s fighters.

If you made it to the end of this post, comment 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 (family) because it’s amazing how much better our country is with successful social programs.

And if you watched or read any of these stories, comment 🏠 (house) because affordable housing is so important, and I’m so glad our Dems, and even some Republicans, are making it a priority.

Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them.

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